Within minutes, agents from CDCR’s Office of Correctional Safety were directed to find and apprehend Meza and notification was made to local law enforcement. Conservation Camps are fire programs ...

He will now likely face new charges related to his escape. “He will be rehoused at a prison and his case will be referred to the Los Angeles County District Attorney for possible escape charges,” CDCR ...

The Acton Conservation Camp’s mission is to provide incarcerated hand crews to fight fires in the Los Angeles County area and all over the state of California, the CDCR states on its website.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — The inmate who walked away from Acton Conservation Camp in Los Angeles County was arrested Thursday morning in Bakersfield. CDCR said on Tuesday night ...

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) announced Thursday the apprehension of an inmate who walked away from the Acton Conservation Camp on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025.

Jessie Meza, 38, was reported missing from the Acton Conservation Camp around 9:15 p.m., when he was not found during a routine head count. CDCR said an immediate notification was made to local law ...

January 30, 2025 - ACTON – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) officials are searching for an incarcerated person who walked away from Acton Conservation Camp in Los ...

“Staff immediately initiated an emergency count, confirming Meza was not at the camp,” CDCR officials said. Jessie Meza is seen in an image provided by California Department of Corrections and ...

I know all too well the world of the prisoner fire-camps, having myself been through ... but it remains scandalously low: the CDCR pays fire-fighting inmates between $5.80 and $10.24 per day ...